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THE NORTH Shore News

Monday and Tuesday,

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world,

laid its en-

trepreneurial cards on the table Wednesday
night in a lively press meets public forum at the
International Plaza Hotel.

News publisher
audience of approximately
50 North Shore residents in
the hotel’s salon A conven-
tion room in what’ was
originally scheduled to be
an informal exchange of
information and ideas be-
tween the newspaper and

Peter
Speck greeted an overflow

By TIMOTHY. RENSHAW

its readership.

Speck, fronting a seated
semi-circle of News
department heads, explain-
ed some of the finer points
and sometime harsh
ealities of the community

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newspaper business to a
cross-section of the inter-
ested, the satisfied, and the
angry from many sectors
of the North Shore popu-
lace.

First and foremost,
Speck explained, a com-
munity newspaper was a
business dependent almost
entirely upon advertising
revenues for its existence:
“The News has a huge
staff including almost
1,000 newspaper carriers.

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Organizers hope that the

expensive Expa
commericals will be

We buy huge amounts of
newsprint every week. We
have a payroll to meet
every two weeks, newsprint
bills and taxes to pay, and
many more expenses to
cover. Advertising supports
us almost 100 per cent.”
The News publisher in-
troduced a portion of 35
staff members from the
paper's total of 100 and
told the audience that the
paper had been founded in
1969 ‘with 50 cents and

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me with holes in’ my
shoes’’. In its subsequent
16 years of existence, the
News, he said, had slain 16
competitors to retain the
North Shore's newspaper
crown,

“And we intend to keep
it,’’ he added later.

In an ensuing 90-minute
question and answer
period, audience members
alternately voiced com-
plaint and commendation
for the paper’s coverage of

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news and the

Complaints ranged from

problems with getting press
releases published
News
perceived coverage of the
negative over the positive.

in the

to the paper’s

In response to the first

complaint, News managing
editor

Nancy Weatherley

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Local mountains fight night wars

Grouse, Cypress, Seymour

all after night skiing business

THE NORTH SHORE's
mountains are heading into
the new ski season armed to
do battle for the area’s night
skiing dollar.

Cypress Bowl Recreation,
who took over the Cypress
Mountain ski facility in
September 1984, has drop-
ped close to $500,000 into
night lighting in order to
lead the former government
ski operation out of the
evening gloom into full night
skiing operation.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

Danny Cox, area manager
for Cypress Bowl Recre-
ation, said the mountain has
very high expectations for
their foray into the night
market: ‘‘With a million
plus population to draw
from we feel very positive
about the move. We'll be
offering terrain for
everything from beginners to
expert. Both sides of the
mountain will be lit up.’

Cypress management: was
also convinced, according to
Cox, of a need for a night
skiing alternative to Grouse
Mountain: ‘‘Seymour is not
really competition for us,
because they attract a whole
different market than we do
— more beginner and inter-
mediate skiers. But we're not
out to pul anyone out of
business, What will happen,
ideally, is that our opening
at night will raise the market
level of night skiing in
gencral and get more people

interested in) skiing at
night.”

Cox estimated that 50 per
cent of their skiing custom.
ers will be night skiers.

Now outfitted with a fully
licensed lounge that has been

installed in one of the moun-

tain's recently overhauled
trailers, Cypress is hoping to
open for night skiing

November 23 and will charge
$t2 on weekends and holi-
days for night skiing from 4
to 11 p.m. and $10 after 7
p.m,

Rick Temple, operations
manager for Grouse Moun-
tain, said Friday he expects
Cypress to take an_ initial
percentage of Grouse’s night

skiing clientele, ‘but that
will be mainly due to the
novelty factor. AS soon as
that wears off, I think we'll
see them return.””

Like Cox, Temple said he
looked at Cypress’s entry in-
to the night skiing market as
a positive move for all the
focal mountains, ‘I think it
will build up interest in night
skiing overall. Ivil be better
for everyone."'

While he said Grouse had
done no major renovations
to its ski runs, Temple
pointed out that close to
$40,000 had gone into
upgrading the mountain's
chalet with the addition of a
new floor-level area designed

for families.

Night skiing on Grouse is
scheduled to open anytime
with rates at $13 after 5 p.m.
weekdays and weekends and
$12 after 7 p.m. from
Thursday through the
weekend. The mountain is
open for night skiing from 9
p.m.-to 1} p.m. during the
week and from 8 to 10 p.m.
on weekends.

Wayne Wong, director of
skiing at Seymour Moun-
tain, Which has been into the
night skiing business since
the late 60s, agreed with
Cox: *‘t don’t think Cypress

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